His marriage collapsed in the face of their family tragedy, and he endures emotional isolation. In Ísafjörður, a boat ride away, lives a psychiatrist whose son has disappeared. In summer, it’s busy with visitors who want to climb or walk the hills and mountains that surround the area, but come winter and you are entirely cut off and alone. Although not an island, it can only be reached by boat as there’s no roads over the mountain. The house is one of a few scattered buildings in all that remains of the abandoned village of Heysteri. Having read Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s novel I Remember You ( Ég man þig) and seen the film adaptation, I found myself thinking about the theme of isolation.Ī group of three adults head from Reykjavík to a remote outcrop of the Westfjords where they plan to do up an abandoned house and set it up as a B&B.
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